Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight
miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with
twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to
them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since
the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any
"business" accomplished in these circumstances?
- Latter Day Pamphlets--Parliaments,
referring to the relationship of teh Parliament to the British people
[Government]

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
- Life of Frederick the Great
(bk. XVI, ch. I) [History]

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are
heavy.
- Miscellaneous Essays (I, 137), (ed. 1888)
[Students]

My whinstone house my castle is,
I have my own four walls.
- My Own Four Walls [Home]

The Age of Miracles past? The Age of Miracles is for ever here!
- On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History,
The Hero as Priest [Books (First Lines)]

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is
eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
- Past and Present (bk. II, ch. XVII) [Work]

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
- Past and Present (bk. III, ch. IV) [Work]

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of
thorns.
- Past and Present (bk. III, ch. VIII)
[Royalty]

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
- Past and Present (ch. VI) [Wealth]

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately
at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
- Past and Present (ch. XVII) [Fame]

There are but two ways of paying debt--increase of industry in
raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
- Past and Present--Government (ch. X)
[Government]

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable
Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and
Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had
invented the Art of printing.
- Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. V) [Printing]

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well
bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge
will come to lodge.
- Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. VIII) [Words]

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and
majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth
to rule.
- Sartor Resartus (bk. III, ch. III)
[Silence]

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my
hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
- Sartor Resartus III [Gravity]

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is
because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning
he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
- Sartor Resartus--The Everlasting Yea
(bk. II, ch. IX) [Greatness]

It can be said of him. When he departed he took a Man's life
with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together
in that eighteenth century of Time.
- Sir Walter Scott,
in the "London and Westminister Review"
[Character]